Humiliated kings, golden statues, countless pearls, 700 ships, mountains of gems….

It is difficult to judge which was the greatest march of triumph the history of Rome. However, the third march of triumph of Pompey, 61 p.X. described always as…
colossal spectacle. Pompey had beat all the pirate fleets of the Mediterranean sea, king Mithridates of Pontus, as well as some of the other leaders, and had annexed the new province of Syria to the empire. According to Pliny the Elder, in his triumph, the Romans could admire gold and silver statues of the vanquished kings, and Athena, Ares and Apollo in physical size. There was also a statue of Mithridates height of four meters. The city streets were filled with the vanquished generals and kings with their traditional uniforms.

The parade lasted two full days. The Romans saw amazing paintings and drawings of the vanquished peoples and cities. There were chariots of gold and silver, an abacus board game with dice from gems the size of which had never seen one. A moon of gold that weighed ten pounds and the likeness of a mountain, entirely of gold, with stags, lions and exotic fruit trees, surrounded by a golden vine. Still, the semblance of a cave of pearls on which there was a solar clock and a portrait of Pompey with the wind in his hair, also of pearls. According to Pliny, the sight of so many pearls they made you almost forgive emperors like Caligula or Nero, who liked to embellish it with pearls slippers.
A total of seven hundred ships that were spoils they entered the port of ostia plant (latium). As if all this were not enough, all the high-ranking officials took a gift of many millions of σηστέρσια, while each soldier took 6,000. It was an extremely successful course, unlike the previous one he had done before eighteen years. Then Pompey wanted to get into the city in a chariot pulled by elephants, but the gate was too small. Then, some of the interpreted prophetic. Rome was now too small for the successful commander-in-chief….
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